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Thing seems to be built on top of Stack.

Nice to see the Haskell community aligning itself so fast around a package manager/build tool created first and foremost for ease of use and convenience.

Why don't we have affordable symmetric internet connections yet?

Noooo! All that wasted helium!

But it is Postgres - QL, because you have Postgres, the server, and its Query Language. Straightforward.

... okay no I was trolling

Is there a product called, or commonly referred to as "PSQL" that could be confused for PostgresSQL?

Because I think the project should start advocating "PSQL".

See,

The competition is called "MySQL". One syllable, then SQL. You know what it does, and you know how to google it. It googles great, too.

PSQL has the same advantages. Google even already understands it.

I thought it was meant to be "Postgres-Q-L"

Edit: wow, the naming page says that Postgres-QL is a "weird derivation".

Traditionally, most journals were published by non-profit scientific societies. But when journals shifted from print to online digital formats, those societies couldn't afford the cost of the equipment needed to make the switch. Instead, they sold their journals to large, for-profit publishers

wait, what

I can't figure out how it would be possible that shifting from physical paper to online hosting could be more expensive

Ha! Cunningham's law.

I see that many OOP languages (of various purity) have interfaces that may be extended by other interfaces. Is that what you're talking about?

I also found that *variance is used in the context of Haskell, but it seems to be far from being widely used.

Haskell being my template of a language with a good-looking interplay of polymorphism and algebraic typing.

Ahhhh, *variance.

The definitive explanation of why inheritance should always be avoided in favour of implementation of abstract interfaces.

Oh my god it's written by David Foster Wallace, there is a javascript widget to display the footnotes, and some footnotes have footnotes.

Perfect.

Thank you so much.

If it starts to suck like MySQL, will it become popular like MySQL?

I think that'd be a fair tradeoff.

There's that bit which made me chuckle at first, then think. A lot. When he shows an algorithm written in prose, then in modern mathematical notation.

The real leap forward here? User interface.

Everywhere I look, I see instances of that same pattern:

One person or small team of very clever people develops a given technique or algorithm, and a gigantic army of technological lumberjacks go out and progressively make it easy to use.

And it's not just UI as in "the paying consumer of a product"; it's UI as in the person which will build the previous UI, and to person which builds that person's tools, and so on, turtles all the way down.

Progress is not algorithms, progress is not ease of use; it's (power of an algorithm / ease of its use).

In the end, progress in user interface is progress, _period_.

I suppose that hackers having a social (sexual?) life outside of work is a huge time management issue at Alibaba.

It's pretty fascinating that they are willing to solve that problem in such a straightforward and explicit way.

I mean you have Googlers eating, dressing themselves, and even sleeping at Google... What's missing after that, one might ask...

I was under the impression that GUTs were _always_ gory messes.

Actually it's probably Fraa Jad or some other Millenarian signing.

It's no fair, I have none of "the hum" here so I have to play my own drone on my speakers and I'm running out of bands.

Either way I'm pretty sure the entire phenomenon is just SunnO))) recording albums.

Punk is a suffix usually employed to evoke one part of another of the punk ethos of independence, DIY, peaceful anarchist self-governance, respectfulness, abstention from consumerist abuse (of hardware or of drugs) and so on.

Or for strong and non-mainstream aesthetics.

Depends.

We're solving problems all the time

Energy storage efficiency is growing

Homeowners are selling power to their utility during the day and buying it back during the night

People are refraining from buying cars so they can buy flats downtown, and a few good bikes.

DIY-ers with did-it-themselves electric japanese subcompacts are blowing people's mind at drag racing strips

Freeways are being torn down

People are growing food in their backyards

A company with a stated goal of sending people to Mars are landing rockets on barges named after _Culture_ ships

The future is a nice place

I initially thought the "infinite" in the title referred to Infinite Jest.

That would have been really wild...

     “Not now, Pa, I know the moon’s pretty, I’m right in the middle of debugging this method . . .”

In the same sense that there's no sound on the Internet.

cracks knuckles aight time to make some Illbient

Isn't that like HDevTools for C++?

Neat.

If you read the fine print and use Pathogen, you can just clone and make in .vim/bundle/color_coded and it will work.

Thank you!

I have a nice lil' prototype going on in Snap, I have Persistent running, and I'm this close to have auth working.

But in the meantime, I have lots of logs to parse ; )

Yeah, I meant "cute" more in the sense of "elegant". Unfortunately it felt too barebones and there wasn't enough documentation to let me get everything running. I like that lib, though.

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Halcyon, I'l remember that. I still have to try Nix one day, too

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Matter of experience, I guess, yeah

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Precisely, there's a virtuous cycle going around popular platforms due to the larger amounts of features and documentation getting written, and in turn, the larger amount of new devs getting into it. Shame those platforms are built on such bad languages... It's cool to see the web evolving in a direction where Haskell can solve very specific problems without disrupting people's stacks.

See, at the bottom of that link, I have three links that are supposed to solve my session problems:

- one is dead

- another is the raw Hackage page for a session library spun off from another project

- the last is a cute hello world for the framework that underpins Scotty.

No Node.js tutorial would finish without a working session manager.

I already got a few libraries and frameworks up and running (including scotty, actually, which is really cute), but somehow I can never have everything I want at the same time...

Some tutorials will have a few routes and a DB, some other will have an intricate rendering and templating architecture and basically no data storage solution, some are more or less a hello world with a session manager... And there's Yesod, which seems to do everything out of the box, but which has such a colossal amount of dependencies that I never got anything to build beyond fresh yesod-init setups, which still manage to fail on my current setup, despite using Stackage and sandboxes.

Among what I've seen in Haskell, ORMs and web frameworks are the two types of libraries that carry the largest and most cumbersome monad transformer stacks around; making a website involves having to typecheck a huge monad transformer into another huge monad transformer. This is not easy.

Not to mention that, in the world of open-source web developement, nearly all the documentation, expertise, copy-pastable code examples and standard practices are in dynamic OOP languages.

Perhaps the ease of RoR, PHP and Node has let everybody forget how much stuff is involved in making modern webpages : )

Hey, that's pretty cool!

After playing with Haskell for the last two years, I figured that it would be pretty damn hard to write conventional LAMP/JS webpages in Haskell, but I still wanted to try to solve some of my real world problems with it.

So I'm parsing the log files that my LAMP stuff produces.

So far it's a very fun and frustrating waste of time, but given my recent progress, it will probably become a slightly less fun and frustrating time saver.

I just recently cleared up some confusion and type errors coming from ByteString/Lazy ByteString/Text/Whatever conversion issues (which made up 95% of the recent frustration, as every other language I'm using right now has one single sort of string (which more than often serves to contain ints ;))

... and database CRUD and JSON typeclass instances have appeared as if by magic.

Awesome!

And now I can celebrate by unleashing that stuff tens of megs of logs, opening top, and then seeing the executable instantly eat up all my RAM, before slowly conceding space to the postgres server.

Hopefully your post will help me implement streaming.

Cheers!

Michael Snoyberg sez 1-4 months before a GHC7.10 Stackage release. Awesome! I love Stackage